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GFA To Decide On Le Roy's Fate |
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Dark clouds hang over the future of Ghana’s national team coach, Claude Le Roy, following his reported application for the South African job left vacant by Brazilian, Alberto Perreira, last Monday. |
Perriera is said to have quit his lucrative job to return to Brazil to be near his ailing wife.
Vice president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Fred Pappoe, told the Times yesterday that Mr Le Roy will be summoned to a meeting immediately he returns from Egypt.
The Stars’ coach is expected to arrive in Accra tonight after attending a three-day CAF Technical Seminar in Cairo.
Mr Pappoe said the GFA will meet over the weekend to decide on the coach’s future with Ghana football, but he declined to tell whether ‘the Swords of Damocles would descend on the Frenchman after the meeting.
Mr Pappoe rejected assertions that Mr Le Roy was compelled to look elsewhere because he was uncertain whether the FA would renew his contract which expires in June.
"This is certainly not true. This is a man we came out to defend with all the strength we could muster, even against the huge public outcry.
"Where, therefore, lies the suspicion that we would turn our back on him?" he asked.
Other sources close to the FA, who spoke to the Times were however, categorical in their statement that Le Roy will be dismissed.
"Le Roy will be given the sack, irrespective of whatever meeting the two are going to have," they said.
Indeed, the behaviour of the 60-year-old Frenchman has triggered widespread public condemnation, with calls on the football association to show him the ‘red card’.
The Black Stars trainer came under severe attack after failing to guide his team to a Nations Cup coronation as he had promised, in the January 20 – February 10 tournament held in Ghana.
But in the wave of the pressure for his dismissal, the GFA, led by president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, quickly organised a news conference, extolling the virtues of Mr Le Roy and asked that he should be retained.
The public was again livid – but the FA stuck to its guns.
Ghanaian football experts, however, believe this latest development should be enough cause to throw the coach into the job market.
Already, Perreira’s compatriot and coach of Brazil club side, Flamengo FC, Joel Santana, has reportedly been given the nod as South Africa’s new coach, upstaging a host of others to the position that went with a mouth-watering $250,000 monthly salary for Perreira.
Mr Le Roy, whose two-year contract with Ghana expires in June, was appointed after the Stars’ spectacular performance at the Germany 2006 World Cup.
Meanwhile, Ghana plays Libya in the opening game of the Angola Nations Cup/South Africa 2010 World Cup qualifier at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi on June 1.
The question many people are asking is whether Mr Le Roy will still be in charge of the Stars.
Source: The Ghanaian Times |
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